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the brancKlets, acuminate : florets wHtisli, in the middle of •which 

 is a globular-oblong floret with a greenish style : fruit flat, oblong- 

 rotund, acuminate, flesh dense, whitish within, insipid. 



Peninsula. Travancore. 



GENUS XLII. DENDEOCALAMUS. 

 Ilexandria Vrl^^ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. From Bendvon a tree, and Calamos a reed. 



Gen. Chae. Spikelets glomerately spiked, arranged in a com- 

 pound spike, somewhat many-flowered : glumes shorter than the 

 spikelets, muticous, lower one smaller : florets three, hermaphrodite, 

 imbricated, 2-Talved, inferior valve ventricose, subulate-muoronate, 

 upper one narrower, obtuse, inflexed at the sides, 4-nerved, extreme 

 or third floret either perfect or hermaphrodite-neuter : stamens 3 : 

 anthers 2-cleft at both ends, linear : ovary short : style long, 

 villous, thickened at the base, compressed tetragonal : stigmas 2, 

 villous, narrow. 



(1) D. Balcooa. fNees.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 196 (under Bambusa). 



Spec. Chae. Arboreous, unarmed : leaves bifarious, lanceolate, 

 cordate at the base, margins slightly hispid : sheaths longer than 

 the joints, Ugula bearded : spikes verticeUed, composed of numerous 

 sessile sub-globular spikelets, 4 — 6-flowered. 



Bengal. 



(2) D. TuLDA. fNees.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 193 (under Bambusa). 



Spec. Chae. Arboreous, unarmed : leaves bifarious, sub-sessUe, 

 linear-lanceolate, pointed, cordate or rounded at the base, 6 — 12- 

 inches long: sheaths longer than lie joints, terminating in two 

 lateral stipulary processes : spikelets lanceolate, sessile, 4 — 8- 

 flowered. 



Bengal. 



GENFS XLIII. AEUNDINAEIA. 



Vrlandria Tri^rynia. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Spikelets 2 — many-flowered, spiked on a depau- 

 perated panicle, sometimes solitary, rhachilla jointed : glumes two, 



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